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Junio C Hamano, Fri, Oct 07, 2005 21:35:19 +0200:
> I have not made up my mind on the exact choice of the quoting
> convention.  We could say '///' instead of '//', for example, or
> even '//{LF}//' instead of '//0A' proposed above.  One thing I
> am trying to avoid is "foo\nbar", which I suspect would be
> unfriendly to the Cygwin folks.

Being unhappy one of them, I think I'd better manage (even if by
postprocessing the output).

Please, don't make the common case ugly just because of that platform
(insanely broken anyway).